The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-06-15
"JOe Prince"
To Tallahassee.-A Joke that Wont Take
Well-A Chapter on Prohibition.

regret to have to waste q little
time on Tallahassee. His attempt
tostill bolster up whiskcy us great
remedy, is certainly the weakest
thing | ever saw. Yes | have
knowd old womcn and others to
use burnt brandy in cases Of Dys-
cntery for the last forty years, Just
as | have known them to use Il great
many other foolish remedies. Dys-
cntrry is an intensely inflamatOry
disease, and an intelligent Physi-
elan would no more think OF using
brandy as Il remedy for dyScntcry,
than he would think of using Gro
ton oil.
am also aware Of the great pre-
tensions of brandy a. II cure for
snake bite, but it has nothing what
ever to stand on.
think from my own experience
that the matter stands about thus:
If II mar is bitten by snake and
then thr0ughly saturated with whis-
key, and dies he dies from the bite,
aided by the whiskcy, if he lives he
lives, in spite of them both. This
is II very old vulgar remedy. The
intelligent profession at the top has
no faith whatever in brandy rs II
remedy for snake bite.
1t is simply Il claim that Original
ted with the rabblc, and has no
proof whatever to rest upon. Thus
one after another of the props Of
this great humbug fall to the
ground.
But Tallahasscc's attempt to il
lustrate what he calls my lecture
by reference to the stale joke of
the flint rocks and the goose eggs
is really too ridiculous, and contcm-
ptable for notice, were it not for
venom, evidently contained in it.
This is Il very old joke and | have
heard it told many times by Tenn
pcrancc lecturers ut different places
but this is the first time that | have
known it to he brought in to do
service OF the opposite side. l have
also heard it located ut different
places. But II few years ago when
| was c~anvassing this county and
1t was thought necessary to weak
en- my influence i'm tho temperance
question. / for the first time, be-
gan to hear from different quarters
of its being located on myself. OF
course the thing was gotten up by
the lowest down, most sncnking
kind of enemies. And the manner
I'm which Tallahassee brings it in
and placing it where it makes nc
fit and utterly fails to illustrate
anything shows plainly that he in.
tended 1T solely as personal fling
Many years ago, under the lead OF
whiskcy, / did many foolish and
ridiculous things; so does every
other man who stOops to follow
such q leader. But, 1 can inform
Tallahassee that his vcnomous
fling utterly failed to hit the mark
This Is one foolish thing that l nm
not guilty of, and to settle the mat.
ter once for all l will bind myselI
to pay Ave hundred dollars to hin
or any other man who will bring
reliable proof to the contrary. The
proof, ifeNisting a very easily be
found. SO now down with YOU
dust or stop your racket.
l Will further say that hereafter
should he or anyone else attempt
to repeat this joke at my expense
they will simply be repeating will
fully, and knowingly an unmiXet
and unmittigated falsehood, which
Of course no gentlemen will stool
to.
This, is an old trick OF the liquor
man.&In fact 1t Is their usual mod,
of warefare.
Being utterly unable Of mec